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If all vehicles in the world were electric, with lithium-ion batteries{{x|NMC-type, which is currently the most popular kind of lithium-ion}}, how much of various minerals would it take to make all the batteries? | |||
* This many minerals would hopefully only have to be mined once, '''if''' the batteries can be [[EV battery recycling|recycled]] perfectly later. If not, we'd need to mine even more minerals than the estimates below. | |||
==Quick estimate== | ==Quick estimate== | ||
{{dp|ev.nickel| 28.9 kg}} | {{dp|ev.nickel| 28.9 kg}} | ||